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Grok 4.6

by xAI

Current flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$3.00

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.500

25% of input — prompt caching

Source: official xAI pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-27

Price receipt

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Overview

Builds on Grok 4.5 with a focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work, and matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. 500K context, configurable reasoning effort. $2/$6 per 1M tokens; prompts above 200K tokens bill at the long-context tier of $4/$12.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/4
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score79.2%
Perf per $/Mtok26.4
GPQA Diamond
94.7%
SWE-Bench Verified
95.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
88.4%
LiveCodeBench
88.2%
Humanity's Last Exam
43%
ARC-AGI 2
65.1%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 44.3 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 30.5 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1643 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1455.6 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #15 of 96 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #13 of 187 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 10 independent measurements
  • Ranks #105 of 187 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 94.7%, #3 of 74

57.8 tokens/sec output

Source: ARC Prize verified leaderboard, ARC-AGI-2 semi-private eval, High effort, Artificial Analysis, Artificial Analysis (Terminal-Bench 2.1, high) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
xAI
Context window
500K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
flagshipmultimodal

Availability verified: — listed on xAI's own page